The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-05-12
THURSDAY, MAY "a, 1887.
A FRIENDLY SUGGESTION

The auxiliary steam bark Kaimiloa,
converted from trading hulk brought
here 10 be sold--hcre where old tubs
generally command premium, as this
one did-was procured by the Ha-
waiian Government for the purpose Of
backing up the "policy" of Hawaiian
supremacy in the Pacific. An extrava-
CANT price was paid for the craft in the
first place, but her cost has probably
been more than doubled by the course
adopted in having her altered for her
intended new purposes. A more
wasteful job than that executed IN the
transmogrihcation Of the old trader to
the ''new" naval training ship, would
have to be sought in the intricate
accounts Of expenditures Of "unex
pended balances" and new appropria
tons upon the roads of the Kingdom.
Doubtless it would take Philadelphia
lawyer to elucidate the one series Of
disbursements as we'll as the other
However, all that must now be left to
the slim chances Of independent hnan-
cial investigators getting into the next
Legislature in sufficient force to under
take the task. The lavish outlay OF
money by the newly established "De-
partment Of the Army and Navy" up
to the present time must be accepted
in all its enormity Of folly, as so much
OF the taxes levied off the country in a
time Of depression and cast into the
sea. 1t must simply be grinned at and
borne by the taxpayers, who have indif-
ferently submitted to having parcel
OF highhying spendthrihs maintain their
hold on the national purse strings,
With so much money squandered, and
the costly craft, pioneer Of the "navy"
sailing through the tropical magma
tons Of our rulers, almost ready for
her initial cruise, the question arises
with undertaking directness to every
reflective mind, What is the mission
of the Kaimiloap There Is not the least
obscurity about the main object the
Government had in view, in buying
and making the vessel over again to
her present style Of upper works and
fitting her out with secondhand arma-
ments in imitation Of ship Of war.
She was so bought and fixed, to be the
support Of the Hawaiian imperial po-
licy in the Pacific. This so-called
policy was conceived in the fertile
brain of INSCRIPTIONS statecraft, for
the purpose in chief OF inoculating the
royal mind with belief in the patriotic
devotion Of crafty and selfish cour-
tier. Now nothing is clearer at this
moment than that the fabric of the
glittering vision Of Hawaiian supre-
macy in the Pacific, beyond the con-
fines Of this group, has collapsed. II
even its shadow remains, it can only be
in the distempered brain Of infatuated
vanity
Take Samoa. An international com
mission, composed Of America, Eng
land and Germany, sitting at Wash
ington, is to pass upon the future regu-
lation of the affairs of that group,
regardless of Hawaii's silly pretensions.
Even il the views Of this Kingdom are
to be admitted in the deliberations Of
that commission, it can only be through
the most condescending courtesy, for
there is no vested claim, no treaty
obligation, nor indeed any fresh argu-
ment of validity, that this country can
lay before the conference in justihca-
ton Of its desire to be considered a
factor in the solution of existing differ
ences between those three Powers
They all have treaty rights and extra
territorial jurisdictions in Samoa, and
the probable basis Of settlement will be
single protectorate by one Of them,
with assurance Of civil rights to the
citizens of the others Hawaii is clearly
and unmistakably out of the problem,
except so far as it may be practicable for
her to obtain equal standing with 9th r